Brandon Casey <drafnel@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 2:04 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Brandon Casey <drafnel@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> >>> So is there any reason why didn't do something like the following in >>> the first place? >> >> My guess is that we didn't bother; if we cared, we would have used a >> single instance of const char in a read-only segment, instead of >> such a macro. > > I think you mean something like this: > > const char * const strbuf_slopbuf = ""; Rather, more like "const char slopbuf[1];"
